Ha'aretz has an interesting item in it this morning. It claims that German and Russian intelligence agencies are attempting to win the release of the kidnapped Israeli soldiers.
German and Russian intelligence services are using contacts to Hamas and Hezbollah in a bid to win the freedom of three Israeli soldiers being held by militants, the Berlin Zeitun newspaper said Friday.
The German Federal Intelligence Agency (BND) – in tandem with Russian intelligence – is seeking to activate long-standing links to both Hamas and Hezbollah, unnamed officials told the newspaper.
If true, this is a very interesting development, indeed. Neither of these two have really been players in resolving the periodic outbreaks of violence between Israel and the terror groups as far as I know. More signs of a changing model? Not just in Washington, either.
